THINK AND SPEAK ENGLISH | HOW TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION LIKE A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER

Hey, in this week's English lesson, I'm going to teach you how to think

in English and then speak English.

This is a method that I have taught thousands upon thousands of

English learners around the world, and it transformed their English.

Now my friend, are you ready to learn this method and finally

speak English with confidence.

Yes.

Well then I'm teacher Tiffani.

Let's jump right in.

Alright.

The very first thing we're gonna look at is right here.

Let's say someone asks you this question, what did he do?

Right now we are thinking about the question again.

We're starting off first and foremost thinking in English.

So if someone asks you this question, hey.

What did he do?

You need to use the five W's method?

Who, what, when, where, and why?

So who are we speaking about?

Let's say his name is John.

What did he do?

John bought a car.

When did he buy the car?

Yesterday.

Now you see what we're doing, right?

We're just thinking about the question and picking out very

simple pieces of information to answer each of the five wss.

Now this information is going to enable you to speak English.

So we have who we have what, and we have when.

Where a dealership in the downtown area and why to commute to work.

So now we have each of the five wss answered who, what, when, where, and why.

A simple method to answer the question, what did he do?

So how can we take this information and turn it into a response that a

native English speaker would give?

Let's check out the response, the speak step.

Here we go.

John made a significant investment yesterday when he bought a car.

He purchased the car from a dealership downtown because he is

going to start commuting to work.

Listen, this right here is a very fluent English response to this question, and

all we did was to first think in English using the five W's method, who, what,

when, where, and why, and each piece of information can be found in this response,

thinking in and then speaking English.

Now there are a few words that I want to explain to you.

The first one is significant.

Now this word significant, it just means sufficiently great or

important to be worthy of attention or noteworthy, something that's important.

Yes, this was a significant accomplishment, something

worthy of focusing on.

What did we say?

He made a significant investment.

A car.

That's a very important purchase.

You're investing a lot of money into a car.

Thousands of dollars, many times, right?

So significant.

Now what about this last word?

Commuting.

What does that mean?

The word is commute.

We added i n G.

Right?

But the word is commute and it just means to travel some distance between one's

home and place of work on a regular basis.

So we saw when we organized our five wss that.

This individual, John was purchasing a car.

Why?

Because he had to commute to work, going from his home to his job on a

regular basis, so he needed a car.

Makes sense, right?

So again, we have the five WSS organized.

We understand who John bought a car, what when yesterday.

When?

Yesterday, where a dealership in the downtown area and why to commute to work.

And we have our response, A perfect response in English.

Makes sense, right?

You're understanding this pattern and using this method to think

in English and then speak, but it doesn't just work for this question.

You can use it in every situation.

Watch this.

Let's say someone asks you this question, what did she do last night?

So we have this individual, who is it?

Let's say her name is Sarah.

What is she doing?

She cooked past tense, a scrumptious dinner.

Now, don't worry, I will explain the meaning of the word scrumptious.

I got you.

Don't worry.

But right now we're thinking in English.

We're organizing our thoughts.

So she cooked a scrumptious dinner when?

Last night.

Where at home?

Why to celebrate her anniversary.

You see, when we break it down thinking in English using the five

Ws, it immediately becomes so.

Much easier.

So we have the information.

Now we need to turn this information into a response that a native

English speaker would give.

So let's check out the response that includes each of the five Ws.

Here we go.

Last night.

Sarah cooked a scrumptious dinner at home for her husband.

She decided to cook because she wanted to celebrate their anniversary.

Each of the five Ws can be found in this response.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

And if you give this response during an English exam, during a conversation, the

person listening to you will be impressed.

Why?

Because it answers each of the five Ws.

Now, I promised you that I would explain the word scrumptious.

So this word scrumptious, it literally just means when speaking about food,

extremely tasty, very delicious.

You've heard me tell you stories during story time about my mom's food.

My mom cooks very well.

Her food is always.

Scrumptious.

You got it.

Again, very tasty and delicious.

Makes sense, right?

Yes.

This word is very commonly used.

So you see that we can use the five Ws to think in English about any topic,

about any question, and we finally are able to give a fluent English response.

But maybe you're asking, Hey, TIFF, does it really work?

I'm gonna give you another example.

Another example.

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All right, so let's go to the third one to prove again that this actually works.

Here's the situation, Peter.

The question is, Hey, where did Peter go?

What do we need to do?

Yes.

To think in English, we need to answer the five Ws.

So here we go.

Who?

We know we're talking about Peter what attended a concert when Last weekend.

Where?

At the stadium.

Why?

Because he is a huge fan of the band.

So we have everything answered for the five Ws.

So simple thinking in English, we're making it easy.

English does not have to be difficult.

We know who, what, when, where, and why.

So now we need to answer the question using the information

that we just organized.

So in order to use this information to organize it, this is what we need to say.

Last weekend, Peter attended a concert.

The concert was held at the stadium, and he had an amazing experience.

He had been anticipating the concert for weeks because he is a huge

fan of the band that was playing.

You liked that response too, didn't you?

I loved it.

Why?

Because we can find each of the five WSS in this response.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

Now you'll also notice there are two words that we need to go over.

The first one that I wanna break down to you is, and anticipate.

We said he had been anticipating the concert for weeks.

What does anticipate mean?

It just means to expect or predict.

He was expecting the concert, he was looking forward to the concert.

Ooh, I can't wait until the concert anticipate.

Makes sense.

Right.

Excellent.

All right.

The second one is actually a combination.

So this expression, huge fan.

Now huge, just means very big or large, but a huge fan is used to emphasize

that you are really a big fan.

A really big fan of someone or something.

Maybe you're my fan.

Maybe you're a huge fan of teacher Tiffani.

I hope so.

I love helping you.

But you see, again, it just emphasizes that you really love someone.

You really are their fan.

In English, we say huge fan.

So Peter a huge fan of the band, so he was anticipating.

The concert makes sense, right?

So again, we just use the five W's, who, what, when, where, and why to

think in English and then speak English.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

Remember, no matter what you're asked, you can use this simple method to answer

and speak English with confidence.

I will talk to you in the next lesson.

You still there?

You know what time it is singing with me.

It's story time a, I said it's story time.

Now.

Today's story is also about music.

So.

One of my closest friends, one of my closest friends, she's

Korean, and I'm actually going to see her in about four weeks.

True story, four and a half weeks.

I'm very excited to see her, her husband, the two kids.

I'm looking forward to seeing her and her family.

So she and I, we were hanging out.

And at the times when I lived in Korea, she had been practicing her piano skills.

She likes the piano.

And so she started playing with a band and the band was going to have a show.

So she said, TIFF, would you mind coming to my show?

I said, of course, I'll be there.

I'll support you.

So I went and two of our other friends, we went to this show.

We wanted to support her.

So they did a great job.

It was a nice concert.

It was a short concert.

And after the concert, our other two friends, they went back home

and I stayed with my friend.

She said, TIFF, do you wanna hang out with us?

I said, sure.

Yeah.

So again, I can speak Korean.

So it was totally fine.

It was not an awkward situation.

About four or five other band members outside of my friend.

So we went, we got some food and we were just talking.

Um, and we had a really nice time.

So after we finished eating, they said, Hey, do you guys want

to go to, uh, a karaoke place?

Now?

You all know I love singing, but again, I was just with my friend and her

friends, I was just kind of, you know, in the background a bit, just kind of,

you know, quieter in the situation.

But I said, sure, I'll go too.

Now, it was around midnight.

You all know that I'm an early bird.

So part of my quietness was I was a little bit tired, but I was

there for my friend and her other friends were nice, the band members.

So we went to a karaoke spot, and again, I'm just sitting there.

I'm a little quiet because I was tired, but I was happy to be there.

I was happy.

I was listening and smiling and everything.

Now my friend, She knew and she still knows how much I enjoy singing.

So I was just sitting there and I was, you know, listening to the band members sing.

And you know, of course I was rocking back and forth, you know, feeling the music.

And so all of a sudden my friend said, Hey, TIFF sings really well.

Let's let her sing.

And I looked at it and I said, okay.

Again, I had been kind of quiet the whole time, you know, of course jokes

and speaking to them, I was, you know, it was an enjoyable experience.

So imagine I'm gonna take this water bottle.

Imagine this is the mic.

So the mic was put into my hands, and once that mic got into my hand, I know

I have a mic right here in front of me, but I need you to, for effect.

This is another mic, right?

I said hit it and they selected the song that I like singing, right?

So I'll sing a different song.

But let's just imagine, again, I've been kind of quiet, reserved, you

know, just, you know, listening to them speak to each other and just

kind of, you know, being an observer.

This is their group, right?

I got that mic in my hand.

And let's say the song, I've sung this song for you before.

Let's say it was Sign me Up, right?

I went from the quiet friend.

To the expressive friend, sign me up for the Christian Jubilee Act.

Now, that's not the song that I sung.

But it was that much of a transformation.

Once that mic got into my hand, I turned into a different person and they were

like, whoa, girl, you can sing again.

This is all in Korean.

But we had a wonderful time.

My friend was on the sideline, root me on Get it, TIFF, get it right.

So we had a great time, but I laugh when I think about that

because they didn't know me.

So they just probably thought I was, my friend's name is Angel.

They probably thought, oh, this is Angel's, you know,

friend, she's a little quiet.

I'm not a quiet person, but again, it was their band.

So I was just listening and you know, if they directed a question

to warn me, I'd answer it.

But after that they said, okay.

So needless to say, we had a wonderful time at karaoke that night.

My friend was very happy because she was able to brag.

My friend can sing, so we had a wonderful time.

So maybe you've been in that kind of situation where you were quiet and then

all of a sudden you flipped the script, you changed and you became yourself.

I hope you enjoyed this story, and I'll talk to you in the next lesson.